Movies like Earth (1930)
The best movies like Earth (1930) are Strike (1925), October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928) and The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923). If Earth hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Last Laugh (1924)7.8/10 from 375 votes
- NewestHappiness (1935)Released 1935
Strike (1925)
Just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, factory workers strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his colleagues revolt against the overarching Czarist regime. As the strike drags on and government officials grow increasingly desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become more and more aggressive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOctober (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)
As the Russian monarchy crumbles, conflicts at Petrograd intensify, with Soviet hero V.I. Lenin leading the rebellion that overthrows the tsar's Winter Palace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Smiling Madame Beudet (1923)
An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHappiness (1935)
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Finis Terræ (1929)
On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. If processed correctly, the ash of the seaweed can be sold for high prices. It is therefore burnt in several large piles on the island. Problems arise when one of them gets an infected thumb.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Cœur fidèle (1923)
The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMaster of the House (1925)
When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLa Roue (1923)
Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Racket (1928)
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMother (1926)
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Farmer's Wife (1928)
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTartuffe (1926)
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Regeneration (1915)
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wildcat (1921)
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Throw of Dice (1929)
Two neighboring kings addicted to gambling, Ranjit and his cousin Sohat, vie for the same beautiful young woman, Sunita, daughter of the hermit Kanwa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Asphalt (1929)
Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJoyless Street (1925)
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBattleship Potemkin (1925)
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDiary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStorm Over Asia (1928)
Lowly Mongolian trapper Bair, shunned by his fellow trappers for fighting with a trader, flees his trading post and joins the Soviet partisans trying to oust the occupying British forces. After Bair is captured and shot by the British, they find an amulet on him suggesting he is a descendant of Genghis Khan. The soldiers nurse Bair back to health and use him to establish a puppet government, unaware that their plan will backfire when the puppet breaks his strings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDownhill (1927)
When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Goddess (1934)
A young prostitute, who is trying to give her infant son a good start in life, must contend with a coercive pimp and the prejudices of others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJ'accuse (1919)
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Corner in Wheat (1909)
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Crowd (1928)
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Laugh (1924)
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWithin Our Gates (1920)
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Was Born, But... (1932)
Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk, is promoted. The boys join the local gang as lowly new kids and emerge as natural leaders after defeating a bully. While visiting the home of their father's boss, the brothers witness the ridicule their father endures to please his superior. Angry and embarrassed, the boys find their naive ideas about power being challenged.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Earth?
The closest matches to Earth are Strike (1925), October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928) and The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Earth?
People who watched Earth most often go on to Strike (1925), October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928) and The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923).
What is the highest-rated movie like Earth?
The Last Laugh (1924), rated 7.8/10 by 375 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Earth?
Happiness (1935) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Earth chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Earth, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.